Sometimes when the old man gets a little Fox News-y at family dinner I tell him that, just to level-set, I don't currently have the bandwidth to address the elephant in the room right now so I'd love to circle back and touch base to continue to conversation offline because at the end of the day we're still family
Nah we have 30 minute stand ups. And review a family-wide PowerPoint. We also hold regularly scheduled tactical and governance meetings.
I actually had someone use this in a meeting recently and everyone in the room did a collective double take That one was new for me
Decision maker, advice giver, inform, owner I couldn’t find this anywhere on the internet so it’s totally made up
When one of my reps tries to delegate work to me, I ask them to define the problem and get me the data to support their position so I can defend the need for time/resources/changes. I’ve yet to even get that from anyone.
We just got some new conference room scheduling screens and along with they renamed the rooms in the building. The board room is now officially TheMainBoardRoom
They cleaned up names and it is now Main Boardroom. Not nearly as cool. I feel like we just got kicked off of SNL.
We were strategizing in a meeting this morning about how we can cater to millennial client audiences who typically jump from company to company and aren’t as loyal as the traditional Abe Simpson worker at the Mill. It took everything in my power to not drop a “women be shoppin!” and really frame the situation for everyone.
I just got a form with some instructions on how to use this new video interview tool and instead of John Doe or whatever the name they picked for the fake candidate was Beyonce Bogus. I like it when people have fun.
Doing my first pre-recorded video interview now. The kid either forgot to turn his webcam on or had it blocked. I have like 12 of these to do.
They get a list of questions and record themselves answering. I review the recording and rate them. And the questions are straight out of the HR behavioral interview template.
That's relatively common now for large companies hiring lower level positions. Delta does it here in Atlanta along with some others I believe
I will say as an interviewer it saves me a ton of time. When we did the interviews live on campus it was a full day of ~10 interviews back to back to back with no breaks. That was a long day.
This may be my biggest office pet peeve. I’m fine if you wanted to expand on something or point out something you forgot to mention, but damn hold on a second
For whatever reason there are a lot of people at my company that will call and leave a voicemail and then follow the voicemail up with an e-mail explaining the voicemail. It is maddening. The reverse happens as well.
Hate when you haven’t acknowledged someone’s email yet, then you pass by them in the hall. Awkward...
This is one of the big reasons I left my last job. I’d be in a meeting for 30 to an hour and get back to an email (either from my boss, or one she was cc’d) and a follow up email and Skype asking me to respond, then another telling me I need to be responsive in general, and usually a reply all with some bullshit wrong answer that made more work for me. Sorry I was actually engaged in the meeting I was in rather than reading emails. People can wait an hour. Shut the hell up.